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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06
The Issues for 1888.


The elements which will determine the next
presidential canvass are the labor question and
the Irish vote. If Henry George, DIR. McGlynn
and the other labor leaders take that opportunity
test the strength of the movement and bring
its views before the people We shall have at cnce
in every State, an unknown factor which will
upset the calculations of the most astute politi-
Clans Another issue. both il the North and in
the South, that is gaining in importance is the
liquor question. / don't believe it be kept
out of the next campaign. and it seems likely to
rank next to the tariff the most difficult ques-
ton to answer"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

THE editor of the Anderson Democrat
should betake himself to the writing OF fiction
altogether, and rely upon his picturesque
style" to carry him through. He might gradu-
allv become in literature what the great
Whistler is in the art of painting striking,
graphic and effective, even though you can't
tell whether he is trying to represent the
Queens nose or fireworks at Vauxhall gar
dana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

Holstein, located on the western shore Of the
Baltic, has a very large and fine harbor. Al
ready city of considerable commercial i'm
portance, it is expected the the canal will add
very greatly to it. 1t was the formal inaugu-
ration Of this enterprise which took Emperor
William and many other dignitaries to Kiel
the other day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

THE burning of six ice-houses and their
contents, at LaPorte, on Saturday night, will
probably enable the ice pool to point with
pride to their new scale of prices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

PittsburR Chronicle
Since the Legislature of Ohio passed at its
late session law allowing city councils to regu-
late the price of natural gas, the Standard Oil
Company which was preparing to supply Cleve-
land with the new fuel has stopped all work and
says it will not go until the Bile leg
islaton is repealed. This is almost crush
ing disappointment to the people of Cleveland,
who hoped their city would become of the
chief natural gas centers of the country. and be
enabled to regain some of the ground lost by her
in competition with Pttsburg. as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

IT looks now as if the Coy-Edenharter
Combine" would have all they can do to pre-
serve the street railroad monopoly intact dur
ing the coming struggle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

DIR. EDENHARTERs open championship OF
the streetrailroad monopoly in the Council
proves his unftness for Mayor. Let no such
man be trusted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

If DR. Edenharter thought it an outrage to
suggest the admission of new street-railroad
company, what will he think when he finds
three knocking at the door at once9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06
A Sudden Recollection.
Buffalo Times.

Buffalo Times.
It is quito generally believed in London that
the Hon. VIM. F. Cody buffalo Bill derives his
euphonious title from being resident of Buffalo.
Why certainly! Now that William has been
presented at court Why, yes! We do remsm-
Der him now He is a resident of Buffalo We
had quite forgotten 1t.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

THE Coy gang claim that ''the prosecution
has been retained for the defense" What re-
Spouse has District Attorney Sellers to that
impudent assumption Is Leon Bailey to be
accented as the answer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

COLONEL JOHNSON doesn't want the earth
All he wants is the exclusive control of the
streets of indianapolis and the right to carry
the Council in his pocket
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

IT is high time the city government were
purged of ha6itual law-breakers suspected
criminals and secret agents of the street rail-
road monopoly. Turn the rascals out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

CAN Mr. Sellers afford to abdicate in favor
Of the tally-sheet forgers' own9 This ques-
ton the district attorney should carefully con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06
The Way of Democratic Reform"

Philadelphia Press.
TIE new postmaster of Baltimore is treating
the civil service idea very much Postmaster
Aquila Jones, of indianapolis, treated it-with a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06
That's the Question.
Pittsburg Chr

Pittsburg Chronicle.
The National Opera Company having elimi-
mated the ballet, the question arises: Has it
n w leg to stand ont
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

Philadeiphia Press.
The Boston people are still w ordering how 100
guests managed to drink 200 gallons of liquor at
the dinner to Queen Kapiolani. We withhold
view until we learn how many kentuckians
were preseQt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06
THE SUPREME COURT PRIZE
A Multitude of Candidates from Which
to Select Justice WOOds's Successor.

Congressman Oates Talks Up the Matter with
the President, and Concludes that Secre-
tary Lamar Can Have 1t if He Wants 1t.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06
cona,t,on of the Growing Crops.

CHICAGO, June 5.-The following crop sum-
mary will appear in this weeks issue of the
Farmers Review: Continued rains throughout
many portions of the West since our last issue
have wrought general improvement In the
crop conditions, especially in the spring crops
aud in meadows and pastures. Harvest has
already commenced in the Southern winter
wheat sections, and this crop is nearly past all
danger Our reports on its condition are as fol-
lows: Eighteen counties in Illinois report an aver
age adtiop of 81 per cent; ten counties report
injury from drought and insects. Seventeen
counties in Indiana report an average condation
of IS par cent; five counties report injury by
insects. Fifteen counties in Ohio report an
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06
WEATHER CROP BULLETIN.

Favorable Conditions of Temperature and
Rainfall In the Agricultural Districts.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-The Signal Office
weather crop bulletin for the week ending June
says:
During the week the weather has been cool
than the average for the week in agricultural
districts of tho Rocky mountains. In the Ohio
and lower Missouri valleys, Tennessee, Ken
lucky, Virginia and North Carolina and the east
portion of New England the deficiency of tenn
perature for tho week ranged from 25 to 80 de-
grees, a daily average of absut degrees
cooler than usual. The temperature was slight
lv il excess of the normal In Oregon and north
ern California. while in central and southern
California it was about the average. The tenn
perature for the season. from dan to June T.
1887, differs but slightly from the normal tenn
perature in the Northern States and In tho
Southern States bordering on the Atlantic coast
while the average daily excess in the cotton re-
gion ranges from to degrees.
During the week the rainfall has been gen.
orally in excess in the States east of the Missls-
sppi river, and in Louisiana eastern Texas
southern Missouri and eastern Kansas slight
DEFICIENCIES of rainfall for the week are reported
in the upper Mississippi valley. Minnesota. Iowa,
Dakota and Nebraska, but numerous and well-dis-
tributed showers occurred throughout the grain
regions Of the Northwest, which appear to have
affected the crops in those sections favorably.
The cotton region has been favored during the
week bv an excess of rainfall. ranging from ono
to two inches in northern Louisiana, Mississippi,
northern Alabama, North and South Carolina.
and Georgia. Although there is large seasonal
deficiency OF precipitation IN THESE StAtes, those
recent rains appear to have been very beneficial
TO the growing crops. owing to their timely oc-
currence and favorable distribution
1.-The weather during the week has apparently
proved favorable for the growing crops. The
needed rains have occurred throughout the wheat
and corn regions, excepting in portions or I'LL
nois Missouri and Iowa, where light showers
have occurred, and telegraphic reports received
this morning show that showers have occurred
during the past eight hours. and are likely TO
continue during the next forty-eight hours in
the States above named. Tho general rains and
cool weather in the hay and tobacco regions in
States on the Atlantic coast, and IN rhe Ohio
valley are reported as favorable for those crops.
The weather was apparently favorable for all
growing crops throughout the South, although
reports from sections of Tennessee and Mlssis-
sippi show that crops were injured by hail in
some sections of those States.
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Telephone Calls

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WASHINGTON oFFICE-5I3 Fourteeath st.
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The INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places
LONDoN-American Exchange in Europe AZ.
Strand.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-07-22
BURNING OIL CARS.
COLLISION OF APAssENeER AND AN
OIL TRAIN.
The OIL Insta ntIy Takes Fire and Ex-
tends TO Isoih Trains.

A terrible accident occurred at the cross
ing of the Grand Trunk R. R. and Michigan
Central r. R. at st. Thomas, Ont, about Z p
M, on the 18th. An excursion train on the
Grand Trunk from Port Stanley ran into a
passing freight train on the Michigan Cen
tral, made up of a number of ears laden
with oil. The engine crashed into one of
these cars, when the oil instantly took fire
and burned with great fierceness, eommuni-
eating to the cars on both trains, and extend
ing TO warehouse and coal and lime sheds
adjoining the track ON the west, and dwell
ing on the east, all of which were burned +,
with their contents.
The engineer of the excursion train was
buried in the wreck His fireman jumped
and escaped with slight injuries The for
ward car of the excursion train was filled
with passengers, who made frantic efforts to
escape, but notwithstanding hundreds of
brave and willing hands were Immediately
at work to assist in their rescue, number
lost their lives.
A little later in the evening when thou
sands of people were crowding around the
burning iute, an oil tank in one Of the cars
suddenly exploded, throwing hundreds to the
ground with great force and scattering fire in
all directions, and severely, perhaps, fatally
injuring many.
1t is impossible to estimate wi o or how
many are injured; but the estimate is at
least 90 killed and three times as many
wounded.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-07-22
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

MRS. JENNIE PALMER HEASfEs, of Detroit,
has written comic opera.
MADAME CHRISTINE NILSSON is expected to
sing in this country next season in concert.
Her price is supposed to be 81, 800 a concert.
"THE LITTLE SINNER is the title of new
five-act comedy drama which Mr.. Howard P.
Taylor has just finished writing for Maggie
Mitchell
Miss CARREN CAMPBELL, an American
violinist, has been astonishing the Germans
With her magnificent playing She promises
TO excel Camill aUrso.
Mr.. AUGUsTIN DAILY, of New York, pro-
poses to present the Tanning of the Shrewn
in London next summer in a way that will
equal the representation given in this coun-
try by Mr. Henry Irving.
JAMES P. VOORHEES,, son of the Indiana
Senator, is writing play, which he expects
20 have finished and ready for production this
fall. The piece will deal with some of the ex.
isting conditions of the labor question.
CARL RosA's English Opera Company will
include Nine. Marie Roze, Mrs. Burns, Messrs
Runcio, Crotty and Salvage. Among the
works in this years repertoire will be
"Lohengrin,n "Nordisa, ''Masaniello,n - and
Masses "Galathee"
MASTER JOSEPH HOFFMAN, the wonderful
Young pianist, male such a success in Lon
don that he will return to fill further engage
ments there this fall and again next spring,
making a tour of the English provinces be-
twepn his nebrOpolitan enpapanants
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-07-22

The Boston Herald gives this: Mr.. George
Farnel, stenographer, of Providence, has
just accomplished the difficult task OF writing
upward of q, 900 words on a piece of paper
the exact size of a postal card The specimen
includes the Journal S report of the Burnside
memorial ceremonies, including formation of
line, route of march, decorations, oration, adj
dresses, ETC., the whole of which occupied
about nine columns of the Journal The
specimen of writing is perhaps the greatest
curiosity of its kind, and was written with an
ordinary steel pen on ordinary paper, and
with the naked eye. It is written in very
simple style of the shorthand, known as the
Isaac Pitman photography, and it would
hours to read an equal number of words to
what this one piece of paper contains; OF, to
make another comparison, it is equal to -four
average Sunday sermons,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-07-22
CLEVELAND AND PENSIONS.
What Has Been Done for Union HerOe
I'm the Past Two Years.

HI Bne ENsV Two curH'
During the past two years that President
Cleveland has been in office he has approved 1858
private pension acts. Grant in eight years
approved only 4S5. Mr.. Hayes in four years
only 303, and Garfield and Arthur in the
same time 1856 Beside this, President
Cleveland has approved three general
pension acts-the first, of March ~,
1886, increasing to $12 the pensionof 70,9S7
widows, minors and dependent relatives of
Union soldiers; the second, of August f. 1886,
increasing the pension of 10000 crippled and
manned Union soldiers of the late war from
$24 to $50, from $50 to S36 and from $31. so
to $45 per month; and the third, of January
20, 1887, which has already placed upon the
pension rolls S455 survivors and widows of
the war with Mexico, and this nunber will
be increased to at least y, 900 within the
present fiscal year. The pension office rec
ords show that 131 1S0 more certificates of
pensions were issued during the
first two years Of the Demo
cratic administration than durin &
the last two years of Republican rule. In tho
same period of comparison the Democratic
administration distributed SIG, OF, ,026. 80 more
to pensioners than did the Republican. An
equally excellent showing is made in the mat
ter of additions to the pension rolls. In this
item the present administration is Is, 40S
names ahead of the two preceding Gen.
Blacks appointment This, too, is in the face
of the fact that the clerical force of the bu-
reau of pensions has been reduced 124 within
the past two years, and that the death rate
among the old soldiers is rapidly increasing
as the years go by.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-07-22
new ENGLAND NEWS.

The Concord railroad has reduced its
freight rate
Post 10, G. A. R., of Worcester has drafted
a new pension bill.
The pope says DIR. McGlynn missed his best
opportunity in not going to Rome while Car
dinal Gibbons was there.
Over a million young fish have been placed
in the Merrimack river in New Hampshire
during the present season.
While worKmen were digging the cellar
a new block in Roxhury they unearthcd a
monster turtle, which, according to the Bos-
ton Record, is about $50 years old and has
lain for so years where he was found,
Further reports from the survivors of the
Merrimack wreck state that the crew worked
bravely and that to their efforts was largely
due the miraculous escape of the passengers.
The horseshoers' strike on the Consolidated
Street Railroad of Boston is ended. Presi-
dent Powers keeps the men hired during the
strike and takes back what he needs from the
strikers, promising to give preference to the
strikers who arc left in filling vacancies.
The proprietors of the Boston Sunday Rec,
ord have decided for the present to suspend
its publication on account of its not being,
financially, a succ IS.
The bill appropriating 500, 600 for new uni.
forms for the New Hampshire national guard
has passed the House and Senate, and been
engrossed and signed by the Governor.
The Boston newsdealers have decided to
! secure headquarters for the purpose of hold
ing weekly meetings, and also to hold pub
lic meeting at an early date.
The city government of Rockland, Me. ,at q
special meeting passed the ordinance regulat-
ing the width of tires to be used on heavy
laden teams on city streets.
: 4 -.
ness men of Mansfield Mass, asking the Bos-
ton & Providence and Old Colony railroads
| to build a new union station at that place.
and is receiving many signers.
| The Senter House at Centre Harbor, N. H.
is destroyed by fire.
Trouble between the directors of the Onset
Bay Grove association and the town OF
| Wareham results in suit against the town
to recover $50, 900 damages.
Fred Spaulding, years DID, of Danielson,
| vile, Conn, fell from a wheelbarrow load OF
bricks propelled by his father, on which he
was riding, and was run over by the barrow
and killed.
John Williams of the Phoenix House, Bos
ton, was severely stabbed during row.
Salem aldermen have ordered q $15,00t
steamer house.
The settlement of the Pocasset mill strike
at Fall River has been left to Secretary
Robert Howard.
A Lawrence (Mass) despatch says: John
Butterworth, who was sentenced in October
1877, to twelve years in state prison for wife
murder, became free man on the 18th by
credit of good conduct during. his imprison
ment.
The general committee of the Associated
British Societies connected with the recent
| celebration Of Ouaeu VictoliaiS jnhilae met al
the Quincy House, Boston. Votes Of thanks
were adopted and extended to all who aided
them. The committee finally resolved itselt
into a meeting for the purpose of promoting
naturalization, every British resident being
requested to naturalize.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-07-22
FOREIGN.

Mrs. Frank Leslie has refused to marry the
Russian Prince Eristof.
The British commission has submitted a
report in which it expresses its conviction
that M. Pasteur's discovery is Of value not to
be over estimated, and ranks it as equal in
Importance to vaccination.
The anniversary of the fall of the Bastile
was quietly observed in Paris.
The Cork municipal council have extended
the freedom of that city to Hon. Patrick A.
Collins of Boston.
The st. Lawrence sugar refinery at Mon
treal was destroyed by fire; loss, 5000, 900
insurance, S430,0O0; one man killed; 40C
thrown out of employment.
A cargo of 27 Cinnamon shipped "in bond
passed through Montreal enroute to New
York from San Francisco. They are trans
ferred from one place to another in bond
and each man has to be furnished with Ger.
tiicate from the consul,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-07-22
NEWsY GLEANINGa

THE total debt of Mexico is sl5O,O0O,OOO
THE worlds railroads carried 100000
people last year.
Two millions United States postal cards are
printed daily at present.
CHICAGO, on the basis of its new directory,
claims population of 10000
THERE are 800, ,000,0 900 invested in the
watch industry of this country.
THE whole length of mail routes in opera
ton in the United States amounts to 375,OOO
miles.
SUNDAY bull fights have been added to the
list of entertainments for visitors at Los
Angeles, Cal.
THERE are more than sixty thousand per-
sons confined in the penal institutions of the
United States.
THE lessees of 1000 convicts in Georgia net
at least S75, 900 per year on their labor, after
paying the state $500
THERE will be a joint Convention of the
North American and Northwestern Bee
keepers Societies in Chicago, November 8, 10
and H. 1887.
A MAN eighty-three years of age has just
been liberated from the galleys in Italy after
having served out term of flfty-seven years.
| His crime was homicide.
THE new bridge on the Tay, Scotland,
where the former one collapsed on December
2S, 1879, is 0LlSneu. III COSG dOOuU %, iOO,OVV
as against 81 $50 900 for the old one, and is
much more solid-looking structure
j. r. WHIPPLE proprietor of Boston
hotel, has recently taken out S50O,0O0 insur-
ance upon his life. OF this 100000 is a life
policy 100000 is twenty years endowment,
and $500, 900 is fifteen years endowment.
FIFTEEN ostriches have just been hatched
from a nest of seventeen fertile eggs, at
Mount Fairview ostrich farm, near San
Diego, Cal This is the best record ever made
in America There are eighty birds at the
farm now.
RICH gold mines have been found in East
ern Siberia, a few hundred miles from
Yakutsk, extending over district hitherto
unexplored. Report declares that the region
is perfect new California in its greatest days
of the gold diggings.
MRS. WILSON, of Lamar, Mo-, is engaged
in the silk industry as Southwestern expert
ment. She has raised $1,000 worms on the
leaves of the Usage orange tree, the cocoons
are reeled off, and she is preparing knitting
and embroidering silk
MRS. LANGTRYs recent naturalization in
California is bringing out the fact that the
act is not wholly unprecedented. Prior to
the naturalization of Mrs. Breckenridge, of
Pennsylvania, a handsome Cuban, Mrs.
WoolsOn, took out papers in 1872.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-07-22
HOT AS BLAzES.

Human Beings Succumb by tho Scores
to the influence of Intense Heat.
At the lowest estimate, $50 persons hav.
met their death within the last few days,
either directly from srmstroke or from the
effects of the extreme heat at Chicago.
"There has never been anything like it in the
city before" said coroner. II can't see
what we are going to do. The number of
bodies awaiting the verdict of the coroner's
jury is hourly increasing. Our force, which
is much too small even for ordinary purposes
is not large enough to do quarter of the
work as it should be done. 1t will take days
with our force before our work on the present
dead can be finished. Some complaints have
already come to us. | wonder that there are
no more After no disease does a body de-
compose so quickly as after a sunstroke. We
worked day and night but the number of
cases before us is greater than ever"
The scene at the coroner'S office is indeeo
terrible. The room is crowded, all bent on
the same errand-to report the name of a
victim of the heat and plead for an early Ger
tifcate. Now and then one appears who has
been there BEFORE and begs that an inquest
be held as soon as possible, as the body is be-
ginning to decay. Coroner's deputies,
careworn looking men, go out on their
sad mission, each with a list of from 10 to 20
places to visit. Above all the commotion can
be heard the almost constant ringing of the
telephone bell each ring preceding the news
of another death. Even the name of the vic
tim is not now taken, simply the place where
the body lies A "sudden deaths is noted on
the books, and later a deputy is sent to hold
the inquest. When it is remembered that a
jury Of six must in all cases be summoned,
that evidence must be taken before verdict
can be given, and that there are but four
men who are authorized to do this work, one
can realize the difficulty of the situation
The condition of affairs is much the SAM.
in Philadelphia Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louis
vile and other places in the path of the hot
wave and the death roll is very heavy. This
torrid spell, with its attendant disastrous
effects, has no precedent